"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1)

Something is amiss with your puzzle touch would have been four letters.

Wordle 640 4/6*

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ALONE
MOIST
POUTY
TOUGH

Jeez, I feel uncomfortably like Schwarzenegger in that flick where he dazedly finds himself describing an athletic woman who’s sleazy and demure…

Wordle 640 5/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
BOUGH
DOUGH
TOUGH - a lesson in pronunciation today

Wordle 540 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
MOUTH
TOUGH

I hate words like this.

Wordle 640 5/6*

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Time for a nap.

WEIGH
LAUGH
ROUGH
COUGH
TOUGH

Wordle 640 3/6

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AISLE
ROUND
TOUGH

Lucky three. At least 10 more legitimate words were left, and TOUGH wouldn’t have been the best eliminator if it had been wrong. The smart play would have been to use a C; but again, lucky.

You are correct. Apparently I typed TORCH which was stupid given my first guess but I read it wrong anyway.

Wordle 640 5/6* 3/21/2023

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GLOVE → Getting that G is rather good - would have taken me a long time to guess in the normal course of things. I feel oddly like a repeated letter here just for the heck of it…
DODGE → But DODGY would have been better, as I repeated the E. And struck out on the Ds. I think I need to try a vowel after the G, but the only one I can think of is another O…
BONGO → And that’s not it. Perhaps it’s an H?
ROUGH → Yes! Two possibilities left, so it won’t be a fatal trap… I haven’t tried T yet…
TOUGH

Scoredle wanted me to guess SOGGY for the second guess, but after that, it said each guess I made was the best possible. Scoredle really loves to try repeat letters after they’ve been found early.

Lost the coin toss today. So a 4 it is.

Wordle 640 4/6*

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IRATE
FOUNT
TOUCH
TOUGH

Me, too.

I do the same thing sometimes, think of one word and somehow type another. The fingers seem to have a mind of their own at times.

Wordle 640 3/6

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ANISE
COURT
TOUGH

Wordle 640 4/6

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SLANT
MOTIF
TOUCH
TOUGH

Another TOUCH - TOUGH. Went fairly quickly, though.

Wordle 640 4/6*

CRATE (yellow T)
STYLO (yellow T,O)
MOUTH (yellow T, green OU, H)
TOUGH

I should stop reading WordleBot which rated me low on this one. I see I’m in good company with lots of 4s and 5s today.

Wednesday, March 22nd

Wordle 641 4/6

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PLANT
CREST
EIGHT
DUVET

Tough one. I don’t have a good follow-up for the second guess when only the T hits and it’s green. (Ideally it would include both O and E, plus two of SCR.) After 3 it took a hot minute to see duvet.

Wordle 641 4/6

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RATIO
SLEPT
DEBUT
DUVET
Another day, another four.

Just noticed the post count. Looks like we’ll need a new thread pretty soon.

Wordle 641 4/6*

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RATIO
STUMP
TUFTY
DUVET

Somehow thought I’d eliminated the E already, so had a hard time with this one…

Wordle 641 4/6*

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VIOLA
EVERY
CURVE
DUVET

Wordle 641 4/6*

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ALONE
USHER
TUBED
DUVET

Wordle 641 4/6

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CLUES
RATIO
NYMPH
DUVET — pretty much the only possible word it could be